Sample Questions - Fire

10 Questions

Compared to the other changes that may occur in a fire service career, potentially how difficult is the change from firefighter to company officer likely to be?

The least

About as much as any other

Depends on whether there is a separate inspection branch or not

The most

What words characterize the role of the company officer relative to the fire company and the rest of the organization?

The point of friction

The vital connecting link

The delivery point of service

The hub of the grass root

What do company officers employ to accomplish tasks that firefighters and driver/operators do not?

Pneumatics

Thought

Other people

Past experience

Should company officers ever work at the same tasks as their subordinates?

No

No, but subordinates can work at the same tasks as company officers

Yes, but only in cases of emergency, such as pulling a collapse off someone

Yes

When a team accomplishes more than the sum of what the individuals could accomplish separately, what is that called?

Duality

Synergy

Efficacy

Efficiency

If a team member's sub-standard performance is the result of an attitude problem, what solution may be indicated?

Progressive discipline

Training

Emulation

Empathy

What is Maslow's famous theory of basic motivational factors called?

Existentialism

Mea culpa res

Hierarchy of needs

Theory Z

If there is an accident in the inside or outside lane of a divided, multi-lane highway, which lane(s) should be closed during `emergency operations?

All lanes going in both directions

All lanes going in that direction

That lane and the adjacent lane

The accident lane only

In a hazardous materials incident, which zone would normally contain the decontamination station?

The hot zone

The recovery zone

The warm zone

The support zone

The Phoenix Fire Department model addresses when and how much to risk firefighter lives depending on circumstances. What does it say, if anything, about such risk regarding lives and property which have already been lost?

This circumstance is not addressed by the model

Firefighter lives should not be risked at all in this circumstance

Firefighter lives should be risked at little, and in a controlled manner, in this circumstance

Firefighter lives should be risked a lot in this circumstance to get bodies out before they are destroyed completely